The Daily Show on Fake Reporters and Indecency
Ok, the episode of the Daily Show posted on Behind the Times has reconfirmed that Jon Stewart and his crew have one of the funniest shows on TV. (period).

Gentoo is a one-of-a-kind distribution, simple yet powerful. The only drawback is that it can take very long to compile software (I would love to test Gentoo on a AMD64), but the results made me forget that.

This is true enough, but after the inital "big ones" (gnome, kde, X, etc) on modern hardware it's really easy to get used to the time to emerge a package.

Half Life 2 Getting New Lighting System
Something coming in through Valve's Steam system will be coming down soon.

Today, Valve software announced several neat new things coming down the Half-Life 2 pipeline, the neatest of which is the inclusion of High Dynamic Range lighting, or HDR, an effect that gives light a very realistic glow.

Macs Sucking? Never!
Gregg has answered the question of Why Does Windows still suck with his own in a way, talking about how mac users should Clean their own house first. Good thoughts dude. It's pretty easy to feel superior and to ignore your own faults when examining someone elses. For example, something I hear from Windows People a lot in OS Religious wars is something along the lines of "but macs don't have OneNote! Or Halo2! they suck without those!" or something along those lines. Sadly (IMHO) this is similar to faulting a ford because it doesn't have a chevy logo on the engine, or a dell because you like the compaq logo more.

The NHL SongDana passed this on to me a couple of days ago, but I never got a chance to listen to it. Now I have I have to post it.... it's NHL Season Song (650k wma) hilarious. Well, hilarious and sad... I miss my hockey :~-(

Getting Beagle Working in Gentoo
This is pretty cool. I've been watching Beagle for a while now, it's the desktop search solution to Spotlight (Mac) and WinFS (Windows). Check the screenshots, it looks and works pretty sweetly. There were also some flash demos posted recently. Anyway, someone put up a HOWTO Beagle 0.0.5 Installation. Note though that to get the latest mono in portage you will need to unmask gcc as well (not a big deal).

This is a classifier for the Linux kernel's Netfilter subsystem that identifies packets based on application layer data (OSI layer 7). This means that it can classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, eDonkey2000, etc, regardless of port. Our classifier complements existing ones that match on address, port numbers and so on.

Basically this means your firewall can be told to say, block http traffic into the network and it'll work regardless of if some clever employee has set up a webserver on port 8080, or 31337. Wonder how slow it is though, doing regex matching on application layer data doesn't scream "speed" to me :) Course, with todays bandwidth and computer speed....